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tenderfoot

(8,424 posts)
Sat Oct 15, 2016, 03:22 PM Oct 2016

GOP N.Y. State Senate candidate busted in alleged Craigslist rent scheme

A Republican candidate for state Senate was busted Friday for bilking at least 10 people in a Craigslist rent scam, police said.



Jon Girodes, 38, faces several grand larceny charges for listing his ritzy Hell’s Kitchen apartment online and collecting rent deposits — only to back out of the deals and keep the cash, cops said.

Girodes, who is running for the Harlem state Senate seat now held by Bill Perkins, stole a total of $50,000 from 10 victims, both men and women, police said.

After listing his luxury digs at 635 W. 42nd St. and demanding a year’s rent in cash up front, the politico refused to hand over the keys, cops said.

He stole over $11,000 from one woman alone — $7,750 for a purported lease and another $3,500 to “help” her find an immigration lawyer, ABC reported.

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Girodes, wearing an untucked violet button-down shirt, jeans and loafers, grinned at reporters as detectives led him out of the 7th Precinct on the Lower East Side Friday night.

Girodes’ bust comes just days after he outraged Harlem residents by telling a reporter he planned to woo prospective voters in the historically black neighborhood with Kool Aid, fried chicken and watermelons.

more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/gop-n-y-state-senate-candidate-busted-alleged-rent-scheme-article-1.2831203

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GOP N.Y. State Senate candidate busted in alleged Craigslist rent scheme (Original Post) tenderfoot Oct 2016 OP
More on the story with video: tenderfoot Oct 2016 #1
I assume this means there'll be one less Pub in the NY Senate. napi21 Oct 2016 #2
This guy's a real sweetheart. lpbk2713 Oct 2016 #3
And he's smiling proud of it. Trump U. instructor? nt duncang Oct 2016 #4
k&r Snarkoleptic Oct 2016 #5

napi21

(45,806 posts)
2. I assume this means there'll be one less Pub in the NY Senate.
Sat Oct 15, 2016, 03:28 PM
Oct 2016

He certainly has a pair of brass ones in trying to pull off a scam like that. He even has the gall to be smiling about his arrest!

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